Day archives: May 20th, 2021

Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

Via LLRX – Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office – As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote …

Subjects: Economy, Health Care, Knowledge Management

The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well

George, Shailini, The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well (May 2021). Carolina Academic Press, Forthcoming May 2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3834474 – “The ABA and most state bar associations have identified a wellness crisis in the legal profession, and called for educating students on how to better cope with the challenges of …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Recommended Books

Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries

Publishers Weekly: “The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) today announced that it has signed a much-anticipated agreement with Amazon Publishing to make all of the roughly 10,000 Amazon Publishing e-books and digital audiobooks available to libraries, the first time that digital content from Amazon Publishing will be made available to libraries. In a release …

Subjects: Digital Rights, Economy, Legal Research, Libraries

Bots and Misinformation Spread on Social Media: Implications for COVID-19

J Med Internet Res 2021;23(5):e26933. doi:10.2196/26933 – Published on 20.5.2021 in Vol 23, No 5 (2021): May. Bots and Misinformation Spread on Social Media: Implications for COVID-19 “As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

The LBJ Telephone Tapes

“The LBJ Telephone Tapes: Inside the Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson is a collaboration between the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Foundation and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. Featuring representative conversations from the secret tapes recorded by President Johnson during his time in office, The LBJ Telephone Tapes provides extraordinary …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research